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tornadoes-2024-dow-refl-greenfield·dataset

Radar echo of the 2024 Greenfield, Iowa tornado, from the Doppler on Wheels radar (DOW7)

DOW7 Reflectivity (Greenfield, IA)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Shows radar reflectivity, a measure of how much rain, hail, and debris a storm contains, for the powerful EF-4 tornado that struck Greenfield, Iowa on May 21, 2024. The snapshot captures the storm's internal structure at one moment.

How it's made. Made from a mobile Doppler-on-Wheels (DOW7) radar parked near the storm.

How & where you'd use it. Helps scientists study tornado structure up close to improve warnings and understanding.

What's measured

tornadoes2024dowreflgreenfield

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-05-21 → 2024-05-21
  • Spatial extent-94.5, 41.275, -94.4, 41.325
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Horizontal reflectivity values (dBZ) from the EF-4 Greenfield, IA tornado on May 21, 2024 collected by DOW7. Scan taken at 20:41:08.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("tornadoes-2024-dow-refl-greenfield")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).